[Correspondence] Suicide in adolescent girls – Authors’ reply

May 7, 2016

The Lancet 387, 10030 (2016)

Author: Suzanne Petroni, Vikram Patel, George Patton

Thomas Verberne correctly notes that suicide has become the top ranked cause of death among 15–19–year–old girls, because of very welcome declines in maternal mortality in this age group. But we disagree that by shining a light on what have long been neglected issues, such as adolescent mental health, harmful gender norms, and adolescent mortality, we are somehow being misleading.1